It’s always a little weird to me when people say things like “I still hold all my old leftist beliefs I just don’t call myself a leftist anymore.” Because like, good for you for not associating with them but uh…you still hold all the beliefs?
Still believe that a small minority is parasitically extracting wealth from the vast majority of people?
Still believe that the best foreign policy is to do nothing and let dictators like Putin and Xi enslave free people because anything else is imperialism?
Still believe in fantasy math that says you can give everyone a free puppy and only the super rich will pay for it?
Still believe that people who disagree with you must necessarily do so because they are evil, bought off, or have been tricked?
Sorry, but “caring about the poor” is not a leftist belief, the Catholic Church has been doing it for a while, there’s no monopoly on it. The actual core leftist tenets are vile, conspiratorial, and ignorant nonsense